Decision Making Techniques

Good decision making is at the heart of management and leadership. This course explores, through a series of cases, a wide range of approaches to decision making to increase both awareness of risk and basic decision skills.

Location

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Duration

2 Days

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Overview

Decision making is at the heart of good management and leadership. It is often the defining characteristic of admired managers, yet it is largely misunderstood and rarely taught to practising or aspiring managers. This course explores a wide range of approaches to decision making in order to increase both awareness and skill to acquire judgement when you really need to make a good call.

Who will benefit

Practising and aspiring managers who want to increase their skills at making good decisions. The techniques presented in this program are not subject specific so they can be applied to participants from a wide range of industries and workplaces.

Content

Problem definition
Criteria for decision making – what makes the decision good or bad?
Types of decisions
Individual vs group decision making
The nature of judgement
Specific decision making techniques
Problem solving models
Decision tree
Force field analysis
Decisions under conditions of risk or uncertainty
Break-even decisions
Selling the decision
Case studies and application examples.

Learning Outcomes

Participants should be able to:

Match an appropriate decision making technique with the problem
Use a variety of decision making techniques
Make better decisions
Sell their decisions to relevant stakeholders.